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SOFTWARE: Soup2pkt. A Soup <---> PKT converter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose Maria Franco Fraiz)
Sun Apr 5 16:27:36 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 05 Apr 1998 11:09:00 -0400
From: jffraiz@poboxes.com (Jose Maria Franco Fraiz)
Reply-To: jffraiz@poboxes.com (Jose Maria Franco Fraiz)
Reply-to: jffraiz@poboxes.com (Jose Maria Franco Fraiz)
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Hi All!
I have ported this DOS utility to run under OS/2. It converts from SOUP
It's freeware for personal use. Nevertheless, if you are a Fiodnet Node
It's available at http://www.arrakis.es/~jffraiz/soup2pkt.htm
This is the feature list:
SOUP2PKT FEATURE LIST
- Converts Fidonet PKTs to soup packets to be sent with an soup mail
- Converts soup packets to PKTs to use your fidonet software to manage
internet email and news groups.
- Converts from FTN *.MSG to soup.
- Can handle mailing lists as if they were echoconferences.
- MIME compatible (mostly).
- Decodes base64 MIME compliant attachments.
- Encodes file attachments and sends them as MIME compliant messages.
- Decodes uuencoded attachments.
- Can trim HTML codes for text/html mime messages.
- Can be used as a gateway for sysops to serve email and newsgroups to
users and requires no sysop intervention.
- Has a built-in address book.
- Trashes annoying junk mail.
- Can handle multiple email addresses.
- Can handle an unlimited number of newsgroups.
- Can be used to route fidonet packets through the internet (FrontDoor and
outbound style)
- Handles FTPMail very comfortably.
- Compatible with the old UUCP gating style
- Automatically breaks down messages with too many lines.
- Works with binary and unix soup formats
- Reads and writes quoted-printable, iso-8859-1, 7bit and 8bit messages.
- Tested with vsoup, souper for OS/2 and windows, UKA_PPP and wssoup.
- DOS and OS/2 versions available.
New features in the soup2pkt 3.0 beta (late state):
- DOS version runs in 32bit protected mode.
- New commands to make it more configurable.
- Very powerful filtering capabilities.
- Prettier display.
- All limits have been raised to 1024.
- POINT command can route out of your system.
- Encodes attachments a lot faster.
- Many bug fixes and little improvements.
Greetings,
Jos=E9 Mar=EDa (jffraiz@poboxes.com)
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